{"id":37390,"date":"2018-09-05T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37390"},"modified":"2018-09-05T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:33:09","slug":"are-we-making-elections-less-secure-just-to-save-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37390","title":{"rendered":"Are We Making Elections Less Secure Just to Save Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ARE WE MAKING ELECTIONS LESS SECURE JUST TO SAVE TIME?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENS<\/u> on election night. With polls closing, American supporters of both parties briefly, intensely align as one: We all want to know who\u2019s going to win, and we don\u2019t want to wait one more minute. The ravenous national appetite for an immediate victor, pumped up by frenzied cable news coverage and now Twitter, means delivering hyper-updated results and projections before any official tally is available. But the technologies that help ferry lightning-quick results out of polling places and onto CNN are also some of the riskiest, experts say.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s been almost two years since Russian military hackers attempted to hijack computers used by both local election officials and VR Systems, an e-voting company that helps make Election Day possible in several key swing states. Since then, reports detailing the potent duo of\u00a0inherent technical risk<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0abject negligence<\/a>\u00a0have made election security a national topic. In November, millions of Americans will vote again \u2014 but despite hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid poured into beefing up the security of your local polling station, tension between experts, corporations, and the status quo over what secure even means is leaving key questions unanswered: Should every single vote be recorded on paper, so there\u2019s a physical trail to follow? Should every election be audited after the fact, as both a deterrent and check against fraud? And, in an age where basically everything else is online, should election equipment be allowed anywhere near the internet?<\/p>\n

The commonsense answer to this last question \u2014 that sounds like a terrible idea \u2014 belies its complexity. On the one hand, the public now receives regular, uniform warnings from the intelligence community, Congress, and other entities privy to sensitive data: Bad actors abroad have and will continue to try to use computers to penetrate or disrupt our increasingly computerized vote.<\/p>\n

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ARE WE MAKING ELECTIONS LESS SECURE JUST TO SAVE TIME? SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENS on election night. With polls closing, American supporters of both parties briefly, intensely align as one: We all want to know who\u2019s going to win, and we don\u2019t want to wait one more minute. The ravenous national appetite for an immediate victor, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21531,253,15125,5567],"class_list":["post-37390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-election-security","tag-elections","tag-sam-biddle","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37391,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37390\/revisions\/37391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}